The station was closed in line with our concern over four of our employees being exposed to COVID-19. We do not know from where they have contracted it.
Solo, C Java (ANTARA) - State radio broadcast (RRI) station in the Central Java City of Solo will be shut down for a three-day period until Friday after four of its employees were exposed to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

"The station was closed in line with our concern over four of our employees being exposed to COVID-19. We do not know from where they have contracted it," chief of the RRI station Sjahbanah Bahdar stated here on Tuesday.

Bahdar recollected that the four employees were members of an arts team performing in a traditional drama "ketoprak" in the city to mark Youth Pledge Day that falls on Oct 28. A week later, he received a report of one of them being exposed to COVID-19.

"In response, we contacted the Solo City Health Office to conduct swab tests on all members of the arts team that took part in the traditional drama. We sent 40 members of the arts team to undergo swab tests," he noted.

On Monday (Nov 9), the health office announced that three of them had tested positive for COVID-19, he noted.

Indonesia recorded the addition of 2,853 new COVID-19 cases and 3,968 recoveries on Monday, thereby taking the total case tally to 440,569 and number of recoveries to 372,266, according to the Task Force for COVID-19 Response.

Five provinces reported a high number of new cases on Monday, with 716 cases recorded in Jakarta, 619 cases in Central Java, 330 cases in West Java, 234 cases in East Java, and 126 cases in West Sumatra.

Jakarta continues to lead in terms of the cumulative count of people testing positive for COVID-19, with 112,743 cases, while 102,831 of the patients had recovered fully and 2,377 succumbed to the infection.

Meanwhile, death toll from COVID-19 had reached 14,689 as of Monday.

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